Paragraph 10B F1

United Kingdom

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. 2 para. 3(4) table words substituted by Building Societies Act 1986 (Assimilation to Company Law and Changes to Funding Limit) 2026 art. 2(3)
Sch. 2 para. 9(1) omitted by Building Societies Act 1986 (Assimilation to Company Law and Changes to Funding Limit) 2026 art. 2(4)
Sch. 2 Pt. 2A inserted by Building Societies Act 1986 (Assimilation to Company Law and Changes to Funding Limit) 2026 art. 2(5)

(1)

Paragraph 9(2A) above shall have effect as if after the words “in legible characters” there were inserted the words “ which are reasonably prominent ”.

(2)

The society shall in all documents mentioned in paragraph 9(2A) above state in legible characters an address in the United Kingdom at which service of any document relating in any way to the business will be effective.

(3)

The society shall also in any premises where the business is carried on and to which the members of the society, the customers of the business or suppliers of any goods or services to the business have access, display in a prominent position so that it may easily be read by such persons a notice containing the society’s registered name and the address mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) above.

(4)

The society shall secure that the registered name and the address mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) above is immediately given, by written notice, to any person with whom anything is done or discussed in the course of the business and who asks for the registered name or the address.

C1(5)

The F2Treasury may, by regulations require a notice under sub-paragraph (3) or (4) above to be displayed or given in a specified form.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Sch. 2 Pt. I paras. 10A-10C inserted (1.12.1997) by 1997 c. 32, s. 36(4); S.I. 1997/2668, art. 2, Sch. Pt. I(h)
F2: Words in Sch. 2 para. 10B(5) substituted (17.8.2001 for certain purposes and otherwise 1.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/2617, arts. 2, 8, 13(1), Sch. 3 Pt. II para. 200(e) (with S. 13(3), Sch. 5); S.I. 2001/3538, art. 2

Modifications

C1: Sch. 2 para. 10B(5); Functions of Building Societies Commission transferred (1.12.2001) to the Treasury by S.I. 2001/2617, arts. 2(b), 4(1), Sch. 1 Pt. III; S.I. 2001/3538, art. 2

Notes on Schedule 2

Modifications

C1: Sch. 2 modified (3.1.1995) by 1994 c. 40, ss. 17(3), 82(2)
C2: Sch. 2 applied (with modifications) (7.4.2010) by The Building Societies (Financial Assistance) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1188), arts. 1(2), 8

Notes on Use of business names: required disclosure

Textual amendments

F1: Cross-heading inserted (1.12.1997) by 1997 c. 32, s. 36(4); S.I. 1997/2668, art. 2, Sch. Pt. I(h)